What’s to Blame for the Situation in Afghanistan? Religion – Patheos

Some are blaming President Biden for the humanitarian blunder we see unfolding this week, and hell certainly receive no sympathy from me. After all, if Americans can spend billions of dollars occupying a foreign country for 20 years under the guise that it was in our national interest, then the Commander in Chief certainly could have waited to withdraw all our troops until all the Afghans who helped us with said interests received safe passage.

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Stabilizing regions in order that oil continues to flow? Rescuing people from their way of life and invading their countries in order to convince them our way of life is better? And does our superior way of life also include cutting and running when we fail?

Either way, President Biden will likely never escape how this link will be forever linked to his legacy. (This video shows in graphic detail terrified Afghans clinging to a departing military transport plane, some of which moments later fell to their death.)

And this according to VICE: QAnon and other conspiracy theorists have already jumped into the blame game. Surprise! The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is a hoax. QAnons logic? The hoax is being perpetuated to distract Americans from the election audit in Arizona.

Other than this conspiracy being sheer absurdity, it reveals the role self-interest plays in controlling the rationale of QAnon disciples. Because claiming that all the video footage involving the unfolding events in Afghanistan are staged is similar to claiming the video footage of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon was staged. Its pathetic. It reveals the kind of narcissist thoughts that run through the mind of a person who thinks everything in life revolves around them, along with the paranoid delusion that everyone is out to get them.

As for how citizens in other countries might be thinking about America or Americans in general these days because of our failures in Afghanistan . . . well, at least Americans are trying to build a better world. Historically speaking, Americans have spent the most by way of our tax dollars, and our soldiers have shed the most blood to help others experience a better way of life.

(This is not to say that other countries and its people have not sacrificed. Only that if people are keeping score Americans have probably sacrificed the most in recent history. And any country that tries this hard to change the world is bound to fail at some point or another.

While nobody in the mass media really wants to talk about it, (because its politically incorrect to bring up the subject), the real reason the Taliban are seizing control of Afghanistan is because of religion. The Taliban are religious zealots. They are inspired by religious beliefs to act in ways that we can now all watch come to fruition on YouTube. So, whatever horrors they committed leading up to the events of this week, and whatever atrocities they will commit against their own people in the years to come is on them and their religion.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltare

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